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Lizstar
@Lizstar

Watching a video where someone is playing the original DOS Rogue from like 85. He's going over the controls, and F10 is the "Supervisor Key"

It displays a fake DOS prompt on the screen you can fart around in and pretend to be doing work in, in case you're playing the game at work

That is so extremely funny.


jcd
@jcd

I was just a kid in the 80s, but I remember the Boss Key in Chessmaster 2000 brought up some BS midwest sales report in what looked like VisiCalc. It was awesome.


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in reply to @Lizstar's post:

There's so many old "boss keys" in old games, I always love seeing what people picked. One Lucasarts game has a sales spreadsheet for their own games, and a Japanese game I played has a Mac TextEdit screen with the game's own script.

I always knew these under the term "panic button" as most flash games would call them, but still a great thing I love coming across from time to time. I always wonder if they ever worked that well. My go-to was always rushing to hit alt+f4